Aging Population Trend

Adults in the United States are deciding to have fewer children today and some couples are deciding not to have children at all, slowing down the population growth. With an aging population and fewer births the population growth rate as of April, 2015 is .73%; a downward trend since July of 2000 when it was at 1.12% making it the slowest growth rate since the great depression. (Multpl, 2015). Back in the early times of this country it wouldn’t be unusual for families to have ten or more children, though few did survive into adulthood, this trend carried on for many years. Families were still having more than a few children in the 1950’s, but then having fewer children started to be the trend. Today many couples are deciding to have only …show more content…
If women are putting off getting married till their late 30’s or even 40’s, having children or not, may not be just a choice anymore, but have a physical explanation. Fertility is the ability to conceive children or young, which is typically is highest between in women in their twenties, the older a women gets the lower the fertility; for women in their thirties and forties the fertility rates drop drastically (Holdsworth, et.al. 2013:93). Timing of marriage can really limit a woman’s choices. Since many women are putting their careers before a personal life. This choice may limit their decisions …show more content…
This is not where a woman chooses her career over family, but where a woman’s employment is restricting her from having children. The woman may worry she will lose her job, and lose her income if she becomes pregnant, or has children. This is where employment has an impact on her fertility; her employment has a “subduing effect on her fertility plans” (Holdsworth, et.al. 2013:166). These kind of problems can get society working towards family friendly workplaces, and in countries with negative population growth it can become a priority in society (Holdsworth, et.al. 2013:166). There are some women who choose a career over a family or have never had the chance of a family; Family is “a married, civil partnership or a cohabiting couple with/ without unmarried/unpartnered children; or a lone parent living with unmarried/unpartnered child(ren)” (Holdsworth, et.al. 2013:120). Whether they don’t want to marry and decide to have a career instead, or that they have never found a partner, there are many women that will never have a family, husband, or children. Though this woman may not be considered a family, she is still considered a